Word: microcosms
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...sides are separated by competing visions of house life. Should each house be a microcosm of the diverse, sometimes contentious Harvard community, or should each house be a comfortable social unit, with its own personality? Said another way, should Harvard promote diversity within the houses or diversity among the houses? With the two sides so far apart, and the outcome so influential in students' lives, compromise has always seemed the best answer...
Harvard Law School, as a microcosm of the nation's legal battles, continues to be closely watched as the trend-setter in decisions of law; it is tempting to assume that the school's internal scandals should be correspondingly inflated...
...masters feel keenly that each house should be a microcosm of the College, and an important part of the Harvard education is that students should educate themselves in terms of diversity," Dowling said. "The current system is a compromise which has not worked well enough...
...monster's birth scene in "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" is a microcosm of the film's strengths and weaknesses. The creature and his creator wrestle in a mesmerizing but awkward dance through the laboratory, slick with the creature's birth fluid. Branagh's interpretation of the Frankenstein story is thematically sound and visually arresting, though often gruesome. Yet its director/star/co-producer is never able to wrestle the film, its camera or script into a graceful waltz...
This week Gladstone is having far more fun than O'Malley. Gladstone has a team in the thick of a hot pennant race. O'Malley has an empty park. "Minor league baseball is not a microcosm of the big leagues," says Gladstone. For that, fans should be eternally grateful...